I just got the iPhone 12 Pro Max and when I take photos, and then go to look at the photo, the phone appears to auto-enhance the photo. Is there a way to turn this off? It's making some of my photos (mainly with people in them) look terrible. It's over-exposing and over-saturating the photo and no amount of editing can make it look normal after that. It's extremely frustrating.
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 14
I figured this out for my iPhone 11. It was automatically enhancing photos and seemed to be overexposing shots, sometimes with a message that said “preparing photo.” I had turned off the HDR setting in Camera settings, and that did not fix the problem. But then I noticed that in addition to Camera settings, there is also a tab for Photo settings. I looked in there, and there is a *second* HDR setting that was turned on. I turned that one off, and was able to take a photo without getting the ugly enhancement. Yay!
That helps somewhat. Thanks! Apple really needs to make an option to disable it all together.
All photos I posted from my previous comment are also the original photos (no lighting effects, etc were changed or edited).
Okay, chill out dude. I'm aware of all of that. I’m just another person with the same issue and this was my best option so figured I’d share. Jeesh.
As discussed above - turning off view full hdr does NOT work
Meant to post these pics along with my response earlier. I accidentally hit post instead of the camera icon
iPhone 13 unfortunately does the exact same thing and I think I’ve found out why. I’ve taken two photos one with my face showing and one with me covering my face. And guess which got the auto brightness enhancement. This is horrible does no one at Apple actually test these “Features” out?
Hi there morganelizabeth5,
We understand you have a question about adjusting the camera controls on your iPhone 12 Pro Max, and we'd like to share a resource that can help.
Check it out here: About the Camera features on your iPhone
Specifically, the "Automatically apply a tailored look to your photos" and "Adjust your focus and exposure" sections may help.
Cheers!
I Got my IPhone 13 Pro Max a few days ago and was horrified what the auto enhance did to my photos.
To get around this issue until they give the option to turn the auto enhance off.
Go to camera settings and turn on Use Volume Up for Burst
Take photos using burst mode
Go to the photo and choose Select at the bottom
Choose one or however many you like
Press Done and Keep whatever you have selected.
Your photo will be there with no auto enhancements 🙂
Also, one correction that helps after you take photo is “noise reduction” that will temper some of the over sharpened non sense.
Wow, this is the only real way to circumvent the Deep fusion added by Apple other than a third party app. Thank you! I was starting to get so frustrated by it.
iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo Auto Enhance
